Thread: Is technology making us less intelligent?
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Old 06-26-2009, 04:54 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by wodin View Post
I suffer from calculator brain! I can no longer add two two digit numbers without a calculator. And forget about long division!
I know these things. I have to, I teach them. (hey, you're in Hawai'i too! cool)

I have often thought technology has totally changed *what* we know and *how* we learn. We no longer memorize things as we used to. Why bother? our technology makes them available in a second. Think of the early 1900s when education involved memorizing long texts and facts. Now we focus on *how* to use that information in new ways. Forget the mathematical equation of some calculus aactivity? No worries- you can easily find it. What's more important is *how* you use that equation. I think, at its best, technology has freed us up to focus on things outside the box, beyond the basics. At worst (which I'm afraid might be more common), it frees our brain... from thinking at all.
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